In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 2
—“_In the mountain-temple the paper mosquito-curtain is lighted by the dawn: sound of water-fall_.”
What happens: light · To what, where: paper mosquito curtain, mountain temple
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 lighted | punct |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 lighted | punct |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 lighted | punct |
| 4 | In | in | ADP | _ | 8 temple | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 temple | det |
| 6 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 temple | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 mountain | punct |
| 8 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lighted | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 curtain | det |
| 10 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 curtain | compound |
| 11 | mosquito | mosquito | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 curtain | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 mosquito | punct |
| 13 | curtain | curtain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lighted | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 lighted | aux:pass |
| 15 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 dawn | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dawn | det |
| 18 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lighted | obl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 sound | punct |
| 20 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dawn | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 fall | case |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fall | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 water | punct |
| 24 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sound | nmod |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 lighted | punct |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 lighted | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 lighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | light in a quote | present · passive | the paper mosquito curtain | the mountain temple | dawn | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Project Gutenberg book 8128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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